LA Times Publishes Melodramatic Piece On Pennsylvania's Voter ID Bill

July 18th, 2012 5:22 PM
David G. Savage of  the Los Angeles Times posted an absurd piece today  concerning Pennsylvania’s new voter ID law, a measure he complains is "strict" and denies residents the fundamental right to vote.   To service this narrative, Savage turned to elderly Philadelphia Democrat Viviette Applewhite, who cast “her first vote [was] for President Franklin D. Roosevelt.”*  and is suing the…

MSNBC Once Again Ignores Inconvenient Facts in Pushing 'Block the Vote

June 27th, 2012 4:02 PM
It seems facts are an inconvenient nuisance to anchors at MSNBC, especially when they get in the way of their favored narratives. A perfect case in point is morning anchor Thomas Roberts who treated his 11 a.m. Eastern MSNBC Live audience to an error-laden report on the GOP's supposed concerted effort to "block the vote" in states like Ohio and Pennsylvania. Roberts began by noting a GOP…